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Thursday, October 30, 2014

Smart Safety: Halloween Tips

Halloween is a fun-filled time for kids and parents alike,
but it is also a holiday that requires a mindset of being safe. Today, the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
and Honeywell Inc. (NYSE:HON) are
teaming up with Nickelodeon actress, Tia Mowry, to launch
KidSmartz™, a new program that aims
to keep kids safe on Halloween and all year-round.

According
to the FBI, police received more than 400,000 reports of missing
children last year in the United States. KidSmartz is a personal safety
program that
educates
parents, teachers and other trusted adults and law enforcement about
preventing abduction. The program empowers kids in grades K-5 to
practice safer behaviors in ways that are
fun, innovative and easy-to-implement.

Through
the use of videos and engaging animations, KidSmartz helps teach
critical safety information to children. The foundation of the KidSmartz
curriculum focuses on the four rules of personal
safety:

1.
Check First

2.
Take a Friend

3.
Say “No” and Find Help

4.
Tell a Trusted Adult

Parents,
educators and other trusted adults can find instructional resources
such as free classroom lesson plans, take-home printable materials for
families, safety checklists and engaging and
animated videos to empower kids to practice safer behaviors and
reinforce the four rules of personal safety.

KidSmartz
reinvents the concepts and methods developed in 2005 for the “Got 2B
Safe! Think Smart and Take Charge” program, Honeywell’s first nationwide
classroom-based child abduction prevention
program for third-graders launched in partnership with NCMEC. This fall
Got2BSafe! will be expanded to impact even more children thanks to the
next generation of the program — KidSmartz.

To
encourage educators to utilize the site, teachers who download the
KidSmartz Education Toolkit will automatically be entered for a chance
to win a $250 gift card that can be used for purchasing
school supplies. Drawings will take place once a month through the end
of the year.

The KidSmartz curriculum and related materials are available for download at
www.KidSmartz.org. For more information, check out KidSmartz on
Facebook and
Twitter.

About Child Abduction

According
to the FBI, more than 400,000 children were reported missing last year
in the United States. The National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children has analyzed more than 9,000 abduction
attempts and found that many: involved a suspect driving a vehicle;
occurred between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.; occurred when the child was
traveling to or away from school or a school related activity; or
involved girls and children between the ages of 10 and 14.
The more you know about abduction prevention, the better protected your
child will be.

About the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

The
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is the leading
501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working with law enforcement, families
and the professionals who
serve them on issues relating to missing and sexually exploited
children. Authorized by Congress to serve as the nation’s clearinghouse
on these issues, NCMEC operates a hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST®
(1-800-843-5678), and has assisted law enforcement
in the recovery of more than 196,000 children. NCMEC also operates the
CyberTipline, a mechanism for reporting child pornography, child sex
trafficking and other forms of child sexual exploitation. Since it was
created in 1998, more than 2.9 million reports
of suspected child sexual exploitation have been received, and more
than 124 million suspected child pornography images have been reviewed.
NCMEC works in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
To learn more about NCMEC, visit www.missingkids.com. Follow NCMEC on
Twitter and like NCMEC on
Facebook.

About Honeywell Hometown Solutions

KidSmartz™
the “next generation” of Got2BSafe! is part of Honeywell Hometown
Solutions, the company’s corporate citizenship initiative, which focuses
on five areas of vital importance: Science
& Math Education, Family Safety & Security, Housing &
Shelter, Habitat & Conservation, and Humanitarian Relief. Together
with leading public and non-profit institutions, Honeywell has developed
powerful programs to address these needs in the communities it
serves. For more information, please visit http://citizenship.honeywell.com/.

About Honeywell

Honeywell
(www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and
manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace
products and services; control
technologies for buildings, homes, and industry; turbochargers; and
performance materials. For more news and information on Honeywell,
please visit www.honeywellnow.com.